I thought this was a great cake. My friend and I made it today we did end up using the extra half a cup of milk and it worked wonderfully. I have not tried the cake w/o the extra milk so can't talk about comparisons. In between the layers of this cake we did put strawberry preserves then a layer of whip cream and then sliced strawberries on top of that before adding the next layer of cake. And we did this is 3 8" pans. For the icing we did a whipped cream but made the icing one a little sweeter than the one we did for the layers. The cake was amazing and delicious. A great spring/summer cake. I'd love to try it again with different fruits for the filling.

I enjoyed the filling I don't actually eat pecan pies not a huge fan of nuts. But my sister wanted one so I found this recipe. It was a little different than what I normally do but thought it would be nice to try something different. My Brother-in-law says he's stealing the recipe so I take it he enjoyed it a great deal. Next time I might add more than a cup of nuts though that's my only change.

Really enjoyed this recipe I didn't have any cardamom so that wasn't included. And like another review posted I ended up doing a little more on the spices than the actual recipe called for. I did par it down to 6 servings instead of what it was originally. Everyone at my house loved it though. Def something I'll try again maybe with different fruit next time. I also added a bit of hot curry to give it a bit of an extra kick and I really liked that.